Closets, cabinets and furniture are meant to house most of our other stuff.
But some stuff
needs to be at the ready. Some
stuff doesn't seem worthy of
precious closet space. Other stuff is
too big for bureau drawers. Turn
to the basket for many of these items.

Baskets

Used efficiently baskets can be decorative as well as functional. Baskets
can be expensive,
but do not have to be. Warehouse
clubs, crafts stores,
discount stores and closeout stores
offer great looking baskets
at reasonable prices.

Kitchen

Baskets placed atop
cabinets can hold gift bows,
sewing notions, backup diskettes,
supplies from warehouse
clubs (six rolls of tape, a dozen boxes
of pens, whatever). Be sure to place loose
items in plastic bags to keep the dust
out. And do not store food this way unless
it is in sealed metal containers
(squeak, squeak). Leave a few empty
baskets up there for serving chips or bread.
Most baskets can be sprayed with
the kitchen sink sprayer.

Bedroom

Old-fashioned bureaus
with their spindly legs
are just calling for baskets
to be stowed below them. Baskets can
keep your bulky sweaters from
taking up precious drawer space.
And don't forget the underbed. Let an
attactive basket holding your linens
peek out from the bedskirt.

Overlaps

Line Height

This is an example of regular line height.
It has an average amount of space between lines, that which
you would normally expect when reading some text.

This is an example of wider line spacing.
As you can see the spaces between the lines are wider and if it is too wide,
it may even be harder to read. This is about right, because
it is double spaced. I used to write papers with double spacing.
Much further than this, though, and I would have toruble reading
it.

This is an example of squashed line spacing.
It is much too close. You have trouble reading it because
it is too close. I sure know that I am having some trouble with
it. Boy, is this squashed. I don't see how I am going to read this.

Word Spacing

This is an example of normal word spacing. It is what you expect to see
most of the time and is pretty easy on the eyes.

This is pretty far word spacing. It is getting
a little hard to read but it can be useful at time.

This is squashed word spacing. As you can
see, the words are getting too close together, making it hard to
read. Oye vey!!

Letter Spacing

Well here you have normal letter spacing. It is what we usually expect
when reading.

Here is letter spacing that is getting pretty
far apart. It is getting a little hard to read.

This is an example of letter spacing that
is pretty squashed and getting hard to read.

Text Indent

This is a normally indented paragraph. It is
what you see in many novels or other text. It has a small indent at the beginning
of a paragraph. It is easy on the eyes.

This is a hanging indent. It displays with
the text starting infront and the rest of the paragraph lines up indented.
In my browser (Netscape) it gets pushed out into the margin and doesn't
display as it is intended.

Vertical Align

This is the Ionic formula for Sodium Sulfate:
2(Na +) + SO4-- ----> Na2SO4
(I sure hope this is correct, it's been a long time since I had chemistry!)